William Mitten (30 November 1819 – 20 July 1906) was anEnglish pharmaceutical chemist and authority onbryophytes who has been called "the premierbryologist of the second half of the nineteenth century".[1]
He built up a collection of some 50,000 specimens of bryophytes (mosses,lichens andliverworts) at his birthplace and home inHurstpierpoint,Sussex. The collection was largely made up of specimens collected around the world by other collectors and is now at theNew York Botanical Garden, having been purchased after his death. These collectors includedRichard Spruce and alsoAlfred Russel Wallace, who became Mitten's son-in-law in 1866.
He had four daughters: Annie, the eldest, was the only one to marry; another, Flora, provided assistance in compiling notes for William Edward Nicholson[2] to write a sketch with bibliography[3] on her father.
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